Nearly two thirds of the world's countries have abolished the death penalty. I don't understand why the USA is so ass-backwards on certain issues such as this.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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Because our government is not about leading and helping, but rather subjugation and obedience. Orwell would be proud.
I believe I can help. It’s because American conservatives, having been psychologically modified to be highly resistant to diversity, have a stratospherically high level of consanguinity with their family members.
The death penalty is irrelevant in the US. Only a few thousand are on death row. How that makes the US ass backwards is not serious. It seems you empathize with criminals who are going to die eventually decades on death row. It only bothers you, in your own mind. 2,000 to 4,000 death row inmates out of a population of 335 million is not a serious issue. The US has 20,000 homicides a year. Death row is a decades long process. At that low number, it's not even a deterrent.
I'm against the death sentence but why use nitrogen rather than a slowly increasing of carbon monoxide?
Proponents say that that it should be a relatively humane method of execution: Nitrogen is inert and the body doesn't react to breathing pure Nitrogen with a feeling of suffocation the way that it does with CO~2~, and suddenly replacing the air a person is breathing with pure inert gas can lead to unconsciousness within just one or two breaths. In practice, though, the first Nitrogen Gas execution that was carried out in Alabama last year did not go that smoothly. I'm not sure about subsequent executions, there have been a handful.
The cruelty is the point.